Stories

Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Strengthening Food System Resilience, Food Equity, Food Systems & Climate Change
Wendell Berry Wants Us to Get Small and Stay In
“If you’re a married man, art doesn’t come before anything. If you have a child, art doesn’t come before anything. And if you have livestock, art doesn’t come before anything.”
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
Republican Maryland Favors Regulations for Poultry Industry
Do voters in these four Republican counties—Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester—really want an end to regulations on industry? A recent public opinion poll by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future suggests the opposite.
Food Equity, Food System Change in Baltimore
Policy in Action: Bringing a Grocery Store to East Baltimore
This area of East Baltimore was one of the most entrenched food deserts in the city before the Save a Lot opened.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
Uncomfortable Questions about Urban Ag
Concerns about gentrification over misguided efforts by wealthy, white urban dwellers to bring community gardens to poor, black neighborhoods.
Food Animal Production
China’s Changing Diet: How to Turn the Tide
Implications of the Chinese diet and how Meatless Monday can be a part of the process.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
China’s Changing Diet: Environment and Health Impacts
Local and global implications of the shifts in China—and how China’s health experts are responding.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
China’s Changing Diet: Meat and Dairy on the Rise
Local impacts, global implications, and promising solutions.
Food Systems & Climate Change, Reducing Food Waste
Wasted Food and a New Spin on the 3 Rs
Wasted food experts and advocates are putting a new spin on the three Rs—reduce, recover, recycle.
Food System Change in Baltimore, Food Systems & Urbanization
Within Reason: Getting the Most from Urban Ag
Residents in lower-income communities fear (often rightfully so) that urban gardens will make their neighborhoods more attractive to developers and increase property values—which makes rents and property taxes go up.
Food Equity, Food Animal Production
Ruffled Feathers at Wicomico County Town Hall
The impetus for the town hall was a proposed broiler operation near Salisbury that would include up to 13 broiler houses.